After Upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 Nextcloud can't be started

ℹ️ Support
1

Running Nextcloud on a Ubuntu-System 18.04 since one year without problem. Actual version NC 19.03, Server with Apache and PHP 7.2.

Today the server offered an upgrade to Ubunto 20.04. I started the upgrade, and the process ended without error.

I can get on the server by SSH. Trying to get to Nextcloud with a browser, it shows a php-script of the file “index.php” as plain text instead of starting Nextcloud. It looks like apache and / or php are not configured correctly. The apache error-log doen’t show anything helping. The php.ini used to be found under “/etc/php/7.2/apache2”, but this path doesn’t exist any more. Seems to be written over by upgrading. Now running is PHP 7.4. I have a bakup of the configuration-file (/etc), but they are for PHP 7.2.

Can anybody give a hint how to get itworking again?

2

If it’s just the php issue, Apache is looking but can’t find php 7.2.
Just tell it to use 7.4 instead…

sudo a2dismod php7.2
sudo a2enmod php7.4
sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

3

Thanks for your answer. The system answers: Error, Module php7.2 / php7.4 does not exist. On my command “php --version” the answer is: PHP 7.4.3 (cli) (built: Oct 6 2020) (NTS).

4

I got it running again. Reinstalled php 7.4, checked the configuration of php and apache along the nextcloud-manual, restarted apache and now it’s ok again.